Lessons in elementary anatomy / by St. George Mivart / [St. George Mivart].

  • St. George Jackson Mivart
Date:
1873
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Credit: Lessons in elementary anatomy / by St. George Mivart / [St. George Mivart]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. The following Lessons in Elementary Anatomy are in- tended in the first place for teachers and for earnest students of both sexes, not already acquainted with human anatomy. I have endeavoured, secondly, by certain additions and by the mode of treatment, to fit them for students in medicine and generally for those acquainted with human anatomy, but desirous of learning its more significant relations to the structures of other animals. . . My hope is that this little volume may thus serve as a handbook of Human Morphology. Man has been selected as the type, because his structure has been the most studied and is the most intimately known, as also because our own frame is naturally the most interest- ing to ourselves. But this book has no pretension to be a I Comparative Anatomy. It does not profess to give a com- plete account of the anatomy of any group of animals. It contains but a selection of facts intended to illustrate the variations which nature shows in that type of structure to which man's body belongs. So far as I am aware, this endeavour is the first of its special kind, and I have felt much difficulty as to the facts to be selected, fearing on the one hand to overload an elemen-
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